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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Allen, N. J.,

Titel

Early human kinship : from sex to social reproduction

Ort / Verlag

Malden, Massachusetts : Blackwell Pub.,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2008]

Link zum Volltext

• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-301) and index.
• List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction and Background; Why 'Kinship'? New Questions on an Old Topic Wendy James; A Brief Overview of Human Evolution John A. J. Gowlett and Robin Dunbar; Part I Where and When The Archaeological Evidence for Early Social Life in Africa; 1 Kinship and Material Culture Archaeological Implications of the Human Global Diaspora Clive Gamble; 2 Deep Roots of Kin Developing the Evolutionary Perspective from Prehistory John A. J. Gowlett
• Part II Women, Children, Men – and the Puzzles of Comparative Social Structure3 Early Human Kinship was Matrilineal Chris Knight; 4 Alternating Birth Classes A Note from Eastern Africa Wendy James; 5 Tetradic Theory and the Origin of Human Kinship Systems Nicholas J. Allen; 6 What Can Ethnography Tell Us about Human Social Evolution? Robert Layton; Part III Other Primates and the Biological Approach; 7 Kinship in Biological Perspective Robin Dunbar; 8 The Importanc
• Early Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society.; A major new collaboration between specialists across the range of the human sciences including evolutionary biology and psychology; social/cultural anthropology; archaeology and linguistics.; Provides a ground-breaking set of original studies offering a new perspective on early human history.; Debates fundamental questions about early human society: W
• English
• Description based on print version record.